Just finished reading Superior: The Return of Race Science by Angela Saini; a superbly researched and written book that had me thoroughly gripped. Highly recommended!
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Saturday, July 18th, 2020
Friday, June 12th, 2020
What was it like? (Phil Gyford’s website)
Congratulations and kudos to Phil for twenty years of blogging!
Here he describes what it was like online in the year 2000. Yes, it was very different to today, but…
Anyone who thinks blogging died at some point in the past twenty years presumably just lost interest themselves, because there have always been plenty of blogs to read. Some slow down, some die, new ones appear. It’s as easy as it’s ever been to write and read blogs.
Though Phil does note:
Some of the posts I read were very personal in a way that’s less common now, in general. … Even “personal” websites (like mine) often have an awareness about them, about what’s being shared, the impression it gives to strangers, presenting a public face, maybe a feeling of, “I’m just writing personal nonsense but, why, yes, I am available for hire”.
Maybe that’s why I’m enjoying Robin’s writing so much.
Saturday, March 21st, 2020

Checked in at Queen’s Park. Getting some fresh air — with Jessica
Monday, March 2nd, 2020

Checked in at The Crane Bar. 🎶🎻 — with Jessica
Sunday, March 1st, 2020

Checked in at Ard Bia at Nimmos. Black pudding hash and a pot of tea — with Jessica
Thursday, January 9th, 2020

Checked in at Jolly Brewer. Wednesday night session 🎶 — with Jessica
Wednesday, January 1st, 2020

Checked in at Jolly Brewer. First session of the year — with Jessica
Thursday, December 12th, 2019

Checked in at Internet Archive
Thursday, November 28th, 2019
Going to Cork. brb
Wednesday, October 30th, 2019

Checked in at Jolly Brewer. 🎶 — with Jessica
Saturday, October 12th, 2019

Checked in at The Quiet Man. Session — with Jessica
Wednesday, September 25th, 2019

Checked in at Cervecería San Andrés. Orejas a la plancha — with Jessica
Saturday, March 23rd, 2019
Checked in at Glen Echo Bumper Car Pavilion. with Jessica, Lauren, Tantek, Ben, Paul, Jackson
Sunday, February 24th, 2019
The timelessness of The Ballad of Halo Jones, the girl who got out | FactorDaily
The Ballad Of Halo Jones is 35 years old this year.
Where did she go? Out.
What did she do? Everything.
Sunday, October 28th, 2018
The Apache server for adactio.com went down, and I didn’t notice for half a day because my service worker script kept everything ticking along nicely.
(The server is back up and running now.)
Monday, February 5th, 2018

Hello, Hong Kong. 🇭🇰
Monday, October 2nd, 2017

Picked up a family heirloom when I was back in Ireland: a fifth edition (1921) of The Theory Of Relativity by Albert Einstein.
Tuesday, August 1st, 2017

Top.
Men.
Sunday, April 30th, 2017

Mad Max Fury Road in black and chrome in @DukeOfYorks was fantastic!
What a grey! What a lovely grey!
Friday, March 24th, 2017
Thinking up marketing taglines for Google:
Accelerated Mobile Pages — “Not just for mobile”
&
Progressive Web Apps — “Not just for apps”